Italian Frescoes High Renaissance and Mannerism The frescoes known today are so varied in their imaginative power function and themes and so masterfully executed that this body of work has long been recognized as a culminating moment in the his

Title: Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism 1510-1600

Author: Julia Kliemann Julian Kleimann Julia Kliemann

ISBN: 9780789208316

Page: 397

Format: Hardcover

The frescoes known today are so varied in their imaginative power, function, and themes, and so masterfully executed, that this body of work has long been recognized as a culminating moment in the history of Western art Italian Frescoes High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510 1600 illustrated with 460 reproduced full color images and 60 black and white illustrations and The frescoes known today are so varied in their imaginative power, function, and themes, and so masterfully executed, that this body of work has long been recognized as a culminating moment in the history of Western art Italian Frescoes High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510 1600 illustrated with 460 reproduced full color images and 60 black and white illustrations and plans presents the full spectrum of this epochal achievement Authors Julian Kliemann and Michael Rohlmann pay equal attention to religious frescoes, which in this period extended and enriched a venerable tradition, and secular imagery During the cinquecento in Italy hardly a single opulent residence, villa, or palace belonging to a cardinal or aristocrat was not decorated in some fashion with mural painting, which developed in an unprecedented variety of forms.